Norway’s Directorate of Fisheries has rejected Pure Atlantic’s application for 45 salmon farming development licenses, arguing that the plan did not bring significant innovation to the industry, it said in a letter dated May 16. Pure Atlantic had planned to construct what would have been the world’s largest ship, some 500 metres …

22nd MAY, 2018 The king size bed in Saddam Hussein’s superyacht is made, the silk curtains around it have been drawn back and, in the gold-rimmed bathroom next door, a barber’s chair awaits its occupant. But the Iraqi dictator never boarded the 82-meter (270-foot) “Basrah Breeze” built for him in …

21st may 2018 Now that the International Maritime Organization has endorsed a global CO2 reduction strategy, the International Chamber of Shipping is calling on the European Union not to publish data on individual ships’ fuel efficiency. The EU’s new Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) rules require the European Commission to collect …

A screengrab from Yonhap News video (below) showing the fire on board the Panama-registered Auto Banner at the Port of Incheon, May 21, 2018. A Panama-flagged car carrier caught fire Monday while docked at the Port of Incheon in South Korea. Officials said the fire broke out at about 9:40 a.m. …

The Akademik Lomonsov, Russia’s floating nuclear power plant – dubbed the “nuclear Titanic” by some environmentalists – arrived in the Arctic port of Murmansk over the weekend, after a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) journey from St. Petersburg that began on May 1. The plant, which has been moored at Atomflot, Russia’s nuclear icebreaker …

21st may 2018 The Iridium network has been approved to provide Global Maritime Distress Safety System (GMDSS) services, signaling an end to a decades-long satellite communications monopoly by Inmarsat. The IMO’s Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) has agreed to recognize that the Iridium network meets all the criteria of the IMO …

21st may 2018 A new poll of the Australian public has found that twice as many people think the live export trade should be ended  as those who believe it should be maintained. Expressions of sadness, empathy for the animals and anger were the most common responses to footage shown …

20 MAY 2018 Maybe it’s time we Homo sapiens reevaluated our relationship with the oceans of the world. It has been a good few millennia, sure, but our love affair may have been a little rushed. After all, what do we really know about the ocean? Roughly 95 percent of it remains unexplored, …

A team of researchers led by Dr. Jun Kang at the Korea Maritime and Ocean University in South Korea, has found a way to convert soot from ship exhaust into graphite for potential use in lithium batteries. Lithium batteries are used in a wide range of products including phones and …

The Al Shuwaikh departed Australia with around 60,000 sheep on board last week; a couple of days before the results of the government’s latest live export industry review, the McCarthy Review, were released. Will more livestock carriers be allowed to take sheep from Australia during the southern hemisphere winter to the Middle …